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Andrianos Giannou holds a BA in Economics and Politics from the University of Sheffield, a graduate diploma in law from City University London, and has earned an LLM from University College London where he focused on competition law and the law and economics of regulated markets. He divides his time between managing a Bucharest-based SME in the food industry, and international politics, in his capacity as Vice-Chairman of the Youth of the National Liberal Party of Romania. He served as chairman of the Permanent Working Group ‘Future of an Enlarged Europe’ of the European Democrat Students in 2005-2006, and acted as an organiser of the Youth of the European People’s Party’s first Transatlantic Youth Summit, which took place in Washington, D.C., in November 2014. In April 2017, Andrianos was elected as the 10th YEPP President.

My first visit to Kiev last week – with the Youth of the European People’s Party, to commemorate the second anniversary of the Euromaidan – was marred by what is an inauspicious conclusion: it is political populism that stands tantamount to Russia as the gravest threat to the country’s frail stability. Consciously promoting seemingly anodyne yet practically impossible solutions to complex problems for short-term electoral gain, by exploiting public fear and disaffection, has been the trade of imprudent rulers and politicians alike for centuries. Any Ukrainian policymaker though ought to know better than that: radicalisation and polarisation have unknown limits. The illusion of control can instantaneously turn into loss of control.

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